If your
pupil is in school and is reading badly, you can probably
get a reading level from the school. If he is an adult and
reading badly enough to want to go through tutoring, you probably
don't have to do a reading test, unless you want a nice before-and-after
showing for your efforts. In that case, consult your nearest
Adult Education Center and ask what test they recommend.

For an
IQ test, I like to use the Peabody Picture Vocabulary
Test (PPVT) for several reasons. It can be given by anybody
- no training needed - it is quick, and it gives you a
rough assessment of a person's vocabulary, which is rather
well correlated with general IQ. You are not looking for
something with an
"exact" score. You only want to make sure your pupil is in
the average to above average range. There are neurological
reasons for this, which I won't go into. But if your pupil
does not score at least 100 on the PPVT, use the RfS material
on him without the I-Card and
music CD's described below.

Tell
your pupil that some of the "words" he sees
in the following bunch actually sound like real words,
although they would be spelled differently. Have him look
down a column - without
reading them aloud - and have him point to any he thinks
would sound like real words if he pronounced them. When he
points to one, then have him pronounce what he thinks it
would be. You do this because otherwise you may miss some
of his mistakes. For
instance, if he looks at "sed" and says that would
be a real word, you will think he has it right. But if he
tells you that it would say "seed" you know it
is a mistake. Then go on to the next column until he has
done them all.
He should be able to do this without more than one mistake.

zam

lep

crope

bete

mord

sed

rool

peze

taer

blone

baik

calp

hib

masp

croe

vust

praid

blut

mern

crasp

He
should identify sed and baik (said
and bake) in the first column, rool and praid
(rule and prayed) in the second, peze (peas)
in the third, bete and taer (beat and
tear) in the fourth, and blone and croe
(blown and crow) in the last column. This is a killer
test for dyslectics.